Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Installation: Galaxies Forming Along Filaments

Frieze: "The startling news that the universe is structured like a sponge was
revealed when astronomers discovered that galaxies cluster into
filaments and wall-like sheets, leaving huge voids of nearly empty
space. In his dramatic installation Galaxies Forming along Filaments,
Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web (2008) Tomas Saraceno
applied another analogy inspired by that finding: the comparison between
our ‘spongy’ universe and a complex spider web in which groups of stars
and other matter are strung like shining beads of water along invisible
strands."